Sentences with phrase «racial minorities in»

A federal appellate court recently allowed a jury to consider allegations that a municipality's enforcement of its housing code had a disproportionate effect on racial minorities in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act («Act»).

NEW: This employment law blog by Eric Bachman of Zuckerman Law focuses on promotion discrimination against women and racial minorities in corporate America.

While the report suggests the numbers of racial minorities in charters should be higher, it's more important for charter schools to support socioeconomic integration and for students to be exposed to other students from all racial and ethnic backgrounds.

The religious opposition to the Vietnam War was certainly more effective than the opposition of those who spelled America with a «k.» And if we have made some significant progress with respect to the place of racial minorities in our society in the last twenty years, it is due mostly to religious leadership.

Since 1976 EATWOT has been sponsoring dialogues among theologians in Asia, Africa and Latin America and oppressed racial minorities in the U.S. Major conferences have been held in Tanzania (August 1976), Ghana (December 1977), Sri Lanka (January 1979) and Brazil (February 1980).

According to a 2016 study published by the Harvard Business Review, including more than one woman or member of a racial minority in a finalist pool helps combat unconscious bias among interviewers and increases the likelihood of a diverse hire.

Black Americans make up the single largest racial minority in the United States and form the second largest racial group after whites in the United States.

Not exact matches

If you are a woman and / or racial minority, chances are you have been interrupted or talked over by a colleague in a meeting (a circumstance often referred to as «mansplaining.»)

In addition to gender, black women see obstacles to racial equality: three - quarters of black women workers say there are still significant hurdles holding back minorities.

They might pretend in order to fool women, LGBTQ folk, and racial or ethnic minorities into voting for them, or they might pretend in order to make other folks feel less bad about voting for them.

While a majority of those surveyed believe that the pay gap is real for both women and minorities, not everyone understands that black workers — specifically women — see more obstacles to racial equality and barriers in the workplace.

According to Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev, organizations with diversity managers, task forces, and intentional mentoring structures report improvements in the representation of women and racial minorities.

Initially, much will depend on the speed of developments in the deliberations and actions of three major constituencies within the church: the liberal institutionalists, the racial and ethnic minorities, and the conservatives.

Together these leaders — long identified with the struggle for racial and economic justice — demand a test of vouchers with one basic criterion in mind: «Do public scholarships help or hurt our poorest children and the children of ethnic minorities?

There has been a lot of conversation in recent years about the rise of racial and ethnic minorities in America.

If SB 1146 were to pass, it would deny students» ability to participate in state grant programs — programs that exist to help low - income students, and which are overwhelmingly used by racial minorities — at schools that are found in violation of the bill.

Without any question it is the racial minorities — Indians, blacks, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans — who have known defeat most deeply, most bitterly, and most continuously in American history.

The projects were also marked by rigid racial discrimination, with Boston's relatively small African - American population housed in separate and unequal projects in minority neighborhoods.

We all know of instances in which racial minorities, women, and colonized countries — as soon as they have gotten into a position of independence and power — have become more oppressive than those who had oppressed them.

There are some in the churchwomen, gays and lesbians, racial and ethnic minorities — who have experienced what it is like to suffer at the hands of the civic and religious establishment.

He was, it seems, acknowledging a social truth about race in America during the 1950s, namely that racial minorities did not matter much to the goings - on of mainstream society.

We meet a similar, and similarly contradictory, construal of justice in some feminist literature, as well as in the claim that the society should be both color - blind and have preferential quotas for racial minorities.

One major fault in the espoused parallel relationships between Christian Privilege and other systems of systemic inequality that disproportionately impact racial minorities, women and the LGBTQ + community is that religious preference is scarcely, if ever, legal to request as a means of legitimizing documentation for state issued IDs, legal documents, marriage certificates, employment applications, etc..

So they read Hard Times in order to gain sympathy for the poor, Wright's Native Son in order to gain sympathy for racial minorities, and Forster's Maurice in order to gain sympathy for homosexuals.

That comparison proved prophetic, as Hendershott exposes the racial politics of abortion and the influence eugenics plays in abortion ideology» reinforced by the startling facts that black babies are aborted three times as often as white babies, and 78 percent of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics are in minority neighborhoods.

In part this emphasis stems from Nussbaum's repeated claim that we need literature to help us «concern ourselves with the good of other people whose lives are distant from our own,» and the experiences of the Guardians are likely to be quite «distant» from the poor, from racial and ethnic minorities, and from homosexuals.

Those claiming biblical justification for their homosexual bigotry are finding themselves ever more in the minority and will soon be relegated to nutjob status just like those still clinging to their biblical justifications for misogyny and racial prejudice.

«It's definitely true that in many ways, white evangelicals and black Protestants or black evangelicals, or evangelicals from other racial and ethnic minorities have a lot in common,» the Pew Research Center's associate director, Greg Smith, told NPR for its exploration of the true number of evangelical voters.

To recall the set of propositions that opened this article, one can make justifiable judgments here: Some people were advancing causes of racial minorities and women better than liberal Protestants or Christians in general.

Such a concern is valid, but it's also part of a larger concern for the denominations, While only 3 percent of those surveyed were from racial and ethnic minority groups, that figure reflects the realities in the denominations.

I student taught in a rural area of central Illinois - a school with two people who were black (and that was it for the racial diversity) so they created their own minorities thorugh religion.

He has observed that the marginalization of women, racial / ethnic / minorities, Dalits, the poor, children, elderly and the sick, in short the majority of the people the world over, has escalated with the spread of the forces of globalization.

It can also be argued that there are class interests involved in this: the new class staffs the welfare - state and civil - rights institutions, the major putative beneficiaries of which are the racial minorities of America.

A recent incomplete data sample from a compilation of plant closures in California showed that the numbers of minority people laid off exceeded whites laid off — a figure far out of proportion to racial percentages in the general population.

The oppressed groups in our society — women, racial minorities, the poor — know well that current language is enslaving and insensitive to them as persons.

While over half of the world's nations have abolished capital punishment, and while international criticism of the U.S. has been intense, America continues to condemn the poor and racial minorities (particularly those who kill whites) in disproportionate numbers, as well as the mentally ill, the mentally retarded, juveniles (here the U.S. leads the world) and sometimes the innocent — and all this to no apparent deterrent effect.

In a chilling chapter titled «The Theater of Terror,» Taylor describes a prison system that locks up economic and racial minorities — 70 percent of those in prison are people of coloIn a chilling chapter titled «The Theater of Terror,» Taylor describes a prison system that locks up economic and racial minorities — 70 percent of those in prison are people of coloin prison are people of color.

Refusing to face the dark yet simultaneously potent and creative side of our nature, we have projected it in monstrous form onto any number of scapegoats, especially racial, political, and religious minorities of various sorts (DPNE 50 - 58).

Part 1 — Racial Awareness Exposure, which consisted of a Friday night / Saturday plunge - encounter in the minority community.

This is evidenced by the fact that in industry, schools, and many other aspects of community life, a racial minority will be tolerated as long as it is a very minor minority.

My peers would probably call it «banter» today, but being in the minority was already daunting and the racial remarks made me deeply self - conscious.

In terms of racial make - up, between one - fourth and one - third are minority families.

The poor and oppressed are stereotyped as lazy or violent; outcast people are dirty and ignorant; the ethnic, national, racial, religious and cultural minorities are subject to old and new stereotypes in their own situations as political or social separatists.

He explores how Methodism grew from a barely perceptible impulse in the Church of England in the 18th century to a foremost expression of Christianity in the modern world; how the mixing of Enlightenment rationality and evangelical enthusiasm resulted in Methodism's perennial doubleness of vision; how the Methodist message was heard, internalized and enacted in a bewildering variety of social and geographic locations; how opposition from Outsiders fostered strength while conflict between insiders fostered weakness; how money was raised, spent and symbolized; how women and racial and ethnic minorities found nourishment in the Methodist message; how the movement managed to circle the globe completely; and finally, how a gaggle of theories about secularization might help us understand Methodism's decline in the latter half of the 20th century.

In the US, I think that about 25 % of the population consists of racial minorities and if you include ethnic minorities you get something closer to 50 %.

This study took place in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district that serves predominantly low - income, racial / ethnic minority students.

Black, Hispanic and «others» representing Asians, Pacific Islanders and mothers in other racial minorities were grouped together as non-white because of their few numbers (Black = 4 %, Hispanic = 6 %, other racial minorities = 5 %).

In truth, ethnic minority renters in the UK already face racial discrimination, but the policy is set to make it worsIn truth, ethnic minority renters in the UK already face racial discrimination, but the policy is set to make it worsin the UK already face racial discrimination, but the policy is set to make it worse.

Dlamini - Zuma pledged during her campaign to tackle the racial inequality that has persisted in South Africa since the end of white - minority rule.

Trump's surprise rise to become the GOP presidential nominee, built largely on a willingness to openly criticize minority groups and tap into long - simmering racial divisions, has reenergized white supremacist groups and drawn them into mainstream American politics like nothing seen in decades.